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Ending Racial Microaggressions:

An Interactive Workshop for Heart-Centered Social Workers and Counselors

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Saturday, October 20
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Registration at 9:00 am


3.0 CEUs approved for Social Workers and Licensed Professional Counselors

A related workshop intended for the general public will take place the same afternoon. For more experience with the methods presented, please consider attending that workshop as well. Registrants for the CEU program may attend the afternoon session for a reduced price of $15.00. More info here

Workshop Location: ​Northshore UU Society, 28662 Krentel Road, Lacombe, LA 70445 map

​​Co-Sponsored by Theatre for Solidarity ​and the Racial Healing Steering Committee of the Women's Center for Healing & Transformation
Presented by Ashana Bigard,  Derek Roguski and Patricia Stout, LCSW-BACS
Theatre for Solidarity, using Holistic approaches informed by “applied theatre arts,” provides a rare opportunity to deepen our anti-racist practice as social workers and counselors. Implications for clinical and supervisory relationships will be explored. 

As a result of attending this interactive training, participants will be able to:
  • Define, identify and address unintentional microaggressions and the harm they cause
  • Have tools to empower clients to read the power relationship in a space
  • Identify one's own blocks to addressing racial microaggressions
  • Understand internalized racial “inferiority” and “superiority”
  • Identify blocks to multi-cultural counseling such as devaluing or pathologizing collectivist view, unconscious bias, minimizing racial identity
Questions? Contact Linda at (985) 605-4181 or  hissobel@gmail.com

Cost: $45
Online registration and pre-payment required.
Class size is limited to 30 participants. Register early to save your spot.
Cancellation 
Policy: No refunds after October 18.
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​WORKSHOP LOCATION:
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Northshore UU Society
28662 Krentel Road
Lacombe, LA 70445 map
A related workshop intended for the general public will take place the same afternoon. For more experience with the methods presented, please consider attending that workshop as well. Registrants for the CEU program may attend the afternoon session for a reduced price of $15.00. More info here
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
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Ashana Bigard, co-founder and co-artistic director of Theatre for Solidarity, is a seasoned workshop facilitator, advocate for students and parents within public and charter schools, an education consultant, as well as a published columnnist. As a local New Orleanian and mother of three public school students, she is personally invested in the success of a more human-centered school system. Over six years at Agenda for Children she developed and operated the parent education program that trained over 2000 parents in early child development, positive discipline and everything in between. She has extensive experience supporting educational and community organizations throughout the city to more fully embody the social justice values. She has a passion for incorporating popular media into her interactive workshops. For more information on Ashana check out AshanaBigard.com

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Derek Roguski, co-founder and co-artistic director of Theatre for Solidarity, is a Joker (trained facilitator of Theatre of the Oppressed and Theatre for Living), performer, mediator and window cleaner based in New Orleans since 2008. He co-founded the New Teachers’ Roundtable in 2010, a community-dialogue based organization that continues to support teachers who are new to New Orleans in developing anti-racist practice within and outside of the classroom. He co-founded and organized with the Community Education Project of New Orleans to host public conferences that brought together stakeholders across the local and national public education spectrum to work for education as liberation. For the development of his analysis of systemic oppression, he is deeply indebted to a number of elders and historic anti-racist organizations in New Orleans including the United Teachers of New Orleans, Junebug Productions/the Free Southern Theatre Institute, and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (for which he has served as a board member since 2013). As a facilitator, Derek is passionate about integrating head, heart and body using applied theatre, imagination, meditation, and critical pedagogy. He is the owner and operator of Firefly Window Cleaning since 2014.

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Patricia Stout, founder of the Women's Center for Healing & Transformation, LCSW since 1991, and a board approved clinical supervisor, has clinical experience in medical social work, school social work, and inpatient and outpatient mental health services. Her private practice, Breath of Life Counseling, combines experiential practices such as breathwork, art, and music for deep processes in psychotherapy and group work. As the founder of the Women's Center for Healing & Transformation, she is committed to micro and macro level social work for inner and outer transformation, including challenges to white supremacist culture for the liberation of all people. Her training and certification in transpersonal psychology and Psycho-Spiritual Integration includes accessing stored memory in the body through breathwork. She has participated in a number of movement and drama workshops designed to awaken stored memory in the unconscious, and she is thrilled to be a bridgebuilder between Theatre for Solidarity and the fields of counseling and social work, as they express themselves in clinical practice and in our wider culture.

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